When Good Spammers Go Bad

pfleming writes "According to this blog article on BadTux by Eric Green, the constant harrassment of spammers has a price. You get a Cease and Desist letter- or more correctly, your ISP gets a C/D letter. But, if you're a hard core geek you just might get your site more notice as it gets mirrored out onto sympathetic hosts. Also mirrored in other locations."

Comments

Re:It was going ok.

[Rogerborg]

>M$ might be a monopoly but at least they have bought some form of consistency

Sure, through their licensing, activation and DRM initiatives, they consistently say they their customers are thieves.

Re:My own list of spammers...

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

Fourth: Let's say this computer does belong to an "innocent" (read negligent) bystander. Crashing his computer might actually get him to fix the problem/alert him that someone else is controlling it.

It might also reboot a critical system belonging to a small business in a much harsher world than you or I will ever visit, and destroy a family's livelihood as a result.

Vigilante justice on the Internet is not something that should be encouraged. What he's talking about is immoral, pure and simple. It is also illegal in most Western countries, and trying to get away with it because you're doing it internationally is just taking the ****.

I hope one day in ten years' time, when there is an international governing body to regulate things like the Internet that can handle this sort of behaviour, this guy gets strung up by a family whose lives he ruined without a second thought, and sued for every cent he owns.

And you wonder why so many people in the world hate America...